Phillips said last week that Buehler has been too inconsistent in practice to kick in the games, but when asked Monday about Buehler, Phillips said, “We have different options we’re discussing. We’re certainly trying to work with Nick still, because I still think he’s a good kicker. At least, he has been. But we also have to look at the realities, too. That’s where we are.”

Phillips also said he didn’t think Folk’s offseason hip surgery is the reason why he’s struggling.

“He doesn’t complain about it,” Phillips said. “Did that have something to do with it? I don’t know. I don’t have the answers or we would know those things. He was operated on in the offseason, he did miss a lot of offseason work and for whatever reason hasn’t done as well this year.”

Phillips admitted it will be tough to find a reasonably good kicker to bring in to compete with Folk.

“I think it’d be very hard,” Phillips said. “Most of them that are out there have probably done worse and certainly hadn’t done as well as he has in a lot of the situations here. So that’s why you want him to get back somehow. How to do that, we haven’t solved that yet, but we’re going to keep working on it.”